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10/19/2011 | Featured Articles
The last decade has been challenging for the aerospace industry, but
a host of breakthroughs have given both big business and private
consumers reason to hope.
5/24/2011 | News
The
space agency announced Tuesday that human exploration remains in NASA’s
future plans, and the new transportation platform will be based on
design originally planned for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The
decision came shortly after a visitor arrived from deep space: the space
agency’s “all sky” cameras captured a man-size comet fragment as it
swept over Georgia. It was the brightest meteoroid seen in the last
three years.
9/13/2010 | News
Reflecting
the fortunes of a struggling economy, government R&D funding for
2011 is expected to slip about three-tenths of one percent from 2010
levels. The big news from the proposed package, however, is a marked
fall in defense R&D: 6.6%. As a result, non-defense R&D could rise by several percentage points.
7/13/2010 | News
NASA has recently made improvements in how missions are
developed, and how budgets are built, but the National Research Council
in a
new report says an overall strategy for staying within budget is lacking
at the
agency.
6/22/2010 | News
The ex-astronaut said he's against paying the Russians $55.8
million per person to fly U.S.
astronauts to the space station and back. He says little money will be
saved
canceling the shuttle program and relying on a single Russian launch
platform,
Soyuz, is a mistake.
5/18/2010 | RDBlog
Visit one of Florida’s
premier tourist destinations (no, not Disney) and it’s a little hard to
believe
there’s a countdown unrelated to a rocket launch. Nearly everything at Kennedy Space
Center is designed
to show visitors that not only does NASA has a rich history of space
exploration, it’s still going strong as the world’s premiere launch
facility.
5/12/2010 | RDBlog
Biotechnology has two of the most promising commercialization areas in orbital research: x-ray protein crystallography and vaccine therapeutics. But the demise of the space shuttle and the dearth of venture capital could stall some important R&D.
5/3/2010 | News
Requiring little maintenance and energy to grow, the sweet
red berries have attracted the attention of Purdue researchers looking
to
provide future astronauts with the ability to tend crops during the
mission. In
addition to spicing up space food, strawberries are rich in antioxidants
and
there is a psychological benefit to fresh fruits.
4/29/2010 | News
The recent STS-131 Space Shuttle Discovery mission conducted
two experiments that helped determine how cells become infected and
regenerate
in a microgravity environment. Carbon dioxide incubators from Binder
were
crucial in maintaining ideal conditions for the space-bound bioreactors.
4/21/2010 | News
An engine nozzle turns a dramatic array of colors during a
recent hot-fire test at NASA's White Sands Test Facility near Las
Cruces, N.M.
Engineers from several of NASA’s R&D labs converged to test new
Aerojet
liquid oxygen/liquid methane ascent main engine technology.
